Linguistic prescriptivism is a worthless endeavor. More effective -- and this article touched on it briefly -- is working to foster an enviroment where the peop

Linguistic prescriptivism is a worthless endeavor. More effective -- and this article touched on it briefly -- is working to foster an enviroment where the people who use the phrase "I feel" are encouraged to state their opinion boldly. The comment about how the phrase is used more often by women is intuitive. Women are more likely to use 'hedging,' to avoid or de-ecscalate conflict, most likely because their position is less often authoratative to the speaker (especially in the workplace). It's also more common for many minorities, who have lived their life with the implict agreement that their presence there is tenuous. Telling a person that they way they speak is 'wrong' without idenifitying the reasons they might be speaking that way is a lazy form of criticism.